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"Here, the men make us feel like gorgeous, sexy women again. As far as I'm concerned, you can't put a price on that." Helen, a catering manager, giggles in agreement. That night, the pair were preparing for another heady night of rum cocktails and reggae with their lovers.

'Price' is of course a key word. Most women do not like to make it explicit that they are paying for the sexual services of the local boys. Instead, the gigoloclient relationship - for in most circumstances that is what it undeniably is - unfolds in a more subtle manner.

Sex is concealed under a veil of romance and 'fun'. Byron - who, when he is not squiring female tourists of a certain age around the island, sells jet-ski rides on the beach - explains: "We are like their boyfriends while they are here. They pay for everything, sometimes they give us money to help us out, and in return we treat 'em right.

"These women say they wouldn't get looked at twice back home, but we make them feel like queens of the island. That's gotta be worth the green (money)."

Older women are best, Byron says, because they have more money and are willing to spend it. "We tell them we like a cat, not a kitten," he grins. "We is like the Foreign Service. We give good lovin'. Why should we not get the good money?"